International Trade and Balance of Payments Statistics

Foreign direct investment, technology and trade are the driving forces affecting most areas of economic activity OECD is analysing. Concerning trade (www.oecd.org/std/its), the Statistics Directorate provides an extensive amount of key information (data, methodological advice and development, data analysis) to users.

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Merchandise trade volume growth remains sluggish in first quarter 2008

31-Jul-2008

Despite a modest recovery of quarterly trade volumes (2.5% for exports and 0.4% for imports), year-on-year import volume growth of the Group of Seven continued to slow in the first quarter 2008 to only 1.0%, the lowest rate since the first quarter 2006. Exports were up 5.6% in the first quarter of 2008 compared with the same period in 2007.

First meeting of the Working Party on International Trade in Goods and Trade in Services Statistics (WPTGS), Paris, 22-24 September 2008

from 22-Sep-2008 to 24-Sep-2008

The first meeting of the Working Party on International Trade in Goods and Trade in Services Statistics (WPTGS) will be held in Paris on 22-24 September 2008 at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris.

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This publication shows the value of each member country's exports and imports of services by type of service.

OECD Statistics on International Trade in Services: Detailed Tables by Service Category, 1996-2005, 2007 Edition

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This reliable and up-to-date source of statistics on international trade of OECD countries provides a detailed insight into the most recent trends in trading patterns for OECD countries with the rest of the world.

Monthly Statistics of International Trade

Reliable source of yearly data covering a wide range of international statistics on foreign trade of OECD countries and provides very detailed exports and imports data broken down by type of commodity and partner countries.

International Trade by Commodity Statistics